Wenger searches for Silver lining

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IN THESE DAYS OF SPIN AND counter-spin, no manager worth his salt can look at a defeat without trying to accentuate the positive. Arsène Wenger reflected on elimination from a second cup competition in four days by declaring that, contrary to the evidence of an eighth away defeat of the season, his team had proved they are no longer a soft touch and that he had, in Vassiriki Abou Diaby, seen the first glimpses of a new Patrick Vieira.

In one sense it is laudable, the power of positive thinking and all that, but, after a week in which their